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Summary Of: Skeptic

A philosophical skeptic does not claim that truth is impossible... Descartes was not himself a skeptic and developed his theory of an absolute certainty to disprove other skeptics who argued that... skeptic is one who questions the reliability of certain kinds of claims by subjecting them to... This does not mean that the scientific skeptic is necessarily a scientist who conducts live experiments... but that the skeptic generally accepts claims that are in his... and other claims the skeptic sees as unlikely to be true on scientific grounds... Whereas a philosophical skeptic may deny the very existence of knowledge... an empirical skeptic merely seeks likely proof before accepting that knowledge... A religious skeptic is not necessarily an...

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